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The stock mike is junk it makes you sound like you are talking into a pillow, no punch, bass, or top end in it. Good enough for the channel 19 crowd, understandable but not going to win any awards for sound quality. Replaced it with an Astatic 575-M6 hand held power mike, huge improvement in...

Datasheets and coding are no issue for her, she designs and builds "black boxes" that allow otherwise incompatible electronics to talk to each other for a living, and does custom bespoke windows apps as well as micros in C and C++. Sure it was a cheap crappy radio, but it was done as an...

Yep, wasn't going to mention it publicly but obvious to anyone thats had work done there or knows her from cbt, if you want the detailed technical info on how it was done youll have to ask by email or a pm on cbt. Don't think she is on any other forums or facebook. Loz

Had a 980 done by a local tech here. Nice looking radio, easy to fit into the SS ute (aussie SUV / pickup type vehicle). Did about 26.8 to 28.0 in 5K steps, but ssb power dropped by 3 or 4 watts above 27.8 or so. Crap radio though, wasn't sure at first if the mod caused the poor performance...

Can't see why that would not work but one of the listed requirements was to use only currently avail new parts, dont know if the 858 is still made but i guess not. Radio works heaps better than my stryker sr-955hpc, 5 s points lower in noise, can hear s3 dx on ssb clearly on the hornet that the...

< START OF PART 3 > Programming the limits, step by step: Connect the USB cable, start the app, and click "Connect to transceiver". If all goes well, the radio will connect to the computer. The PLL profile name will be read back from the radio (here, it's "uPD2824 SSB, ver 1.00"). The...

< START OF PART 2 > Other parts of the conversion: Tuning holes drilled on the print side of the board for the 3 covered cans. No hole was needed for the tripler adjustment, because this can is no longer used (the new PLL divides the VCO directly, without a downmixer). This open circuited...

For anyone interested, here's the latest radio we had converted by a certain sydney tech. She called it the EXPANDA board. I agreed to let my old hornet 2 be the guinea pig for this one and the result was way better than i expected, the final version should be awesome!!! < START OF QUOTE >...

Hmmmm, sold one of these a while back, another one shows up on ebay, gives 6 banks of 40 channels without crystals. A) 26.215 - 26.605 B) 26.615 - 27.005 C) 26.965 - 27.405 D) 27.415 - 27.805 E) 27.815 - 28.205 F) 28.215 - 28.605 Also has +5, -5, and 10K shift function...

Long shot but worth a try. Want to buy a couple of radios: 1) Kraco SSB deluxe, 23 channel, condition not important but must be working and complete! 2) Bearcat 980 SSB radio,condition not important but must be working and complete! Do not need things like power cords and microphones, just...

Some Aussie tapes from the 80's. A band that went by the name of "The 30 DB's" used to poke fun at some well known loud voices by making songs about them (some with samples of the victims voice included), prank calling them, and other general mayhem. Warning: defiantly NSFW. Contains...

That's true for some of the smaller makers, but the big players like uniden and the sony / panasonics / similar buy parts they use a lot of often and just enough to keep them going. Nearly all the parts with date codes in these brands will be fairly close, a year at best in a lot of cases...

A model number means almost nothing, for example the cobra 148 has been made since the late seventies and is still made today. A maker will not want to hold inventory so the date codes on the components are a good indication of how old something is, look for the four digit universal date code...

I wasn't going to say the name in public, but that's the one. For the last few months shes been giving some dude step by step instructions on how to do something like that to a president madison, but with everything inside the radio instead of in a box on top like mine. Way beyond my level of...

If you PM us I can pass on an email address, don't want to put it out in a public forum and cause an upset , I need another radio fixing soon :unsure: Loz!

They didn't leave enough room to fit the name of the country in :laugh:

There is a tech in Sydney ("STN") that adds vfo's to most ssb radios. We had one done in 2012, a 23 channel bengal ssb base rig, with the vfo it covered 25 to 29 megs continuous in 1k, 5k, 10k, or 100k steps. Sounds great on air and we use it for the 26.7 crowd, normal cb channels, and 10...

Instantly recognizable to anyone in Oz that had CB in the late 80s. Sold in huge numbers down here as a "super puma" radio. There was 2 versions, the grey one as below or a silver faced one like the picture you showed, lettering on both was the same. From the manual: it adjusts the AWI...

He wants if for a freakishly big van from the same era. These vans were hugely popular down here in the 70's (they were called "f*** trucks" or "**g wagons" at the time). Not sure if you had the same van craze over there in the states, they were pimped up by getting lined with carpet, and...

They don't do any form of scanning, the radios channel selector is used, such as on band 2 channel 1 becomes 41, 2 becomes 42, up to 40 becomes 80. The Pro810 used a 5 or 6 way rotary switch salvaged from an almost new 10 meter export radio that someone bought from the states and didnt realize...